JLA #245 – “The Long Road Home” – Gerry Conway/Luke McDonnell/Mike Machlan
This one starts with Steel waking up on a ravaged planet which may or may not be Earth. He’s in bad shape, but manages to fight off some insectoid creatures. A woman shows up (Olanda) and Steel passes out before he can ask her where he is. Olanda is able to command the insectoids and orders them to load Steel in her ship so she can take him to her father. Elsewhere, a bunch of shadowy guys are observing Steel and Olanda and decide they want to capture him. They send a robot ship, but Olanda destroys it and takes off with Steel. The shadowy guys wonder if the
“Progenitor” has figured out a way to time travel … which should be impossible since they have his Chrono-Cube. Back on Earth-1 in the present, Steel’s grandfather (Hank Heywood aka Commander Steel) wakes up. Steel kicked his ass last issue after Heywood went nuts and tried to use Infinity Inc to take down the JLA. Heywood feels bad about everything (especially torturing his grandson) and wants to apologize, but J’onn tells him Steel disappeared during the Crisis and nobody knows where he is. Steel wakes up in Olanda’s place and she’s a little freaked out when he mentions he’s a JLA member. Olanda tells her father (who’s encased in a giant crystal), but he says they need Steel to fight against the Six. They tell Steel he’s in the year 1,000,000,000 AD and he recalls falling through a warp during the Crisis. 
The Six send robots to attack and Steel destroys them. Olanda’s father reveals himself to be the Lord of Time and tells Steel how he created seven clones of himself (Olanda and her six brothers), but the brothers got jealous because Olanda was his favourite. Lord of Time wants Steel to help him get to the Six’s fortress and retrieve his Chrono-Cube so he can undo the mess he’s caused. Steel leads the attack on the Six’s citadel, smashing through all their robots and fighting them. Lord of Time uses the Chrono-Cube to go back in time and stop himself from making the clones in the first place, so the Six disappear. Steel worries that Olanda was wiped out of existence too, but Lord of Time kept her (she was his favourite after all), and it looks like she and Steel might be getting it on before he heads back to his own time.
Legion of Super-Heroes #17 – “A New Beginning” – Paul Levitz/Greg Larocque/Larry Mahlstedt
This one starts with Leland McCauley complaining how much he hates R.J. Brande. McCauley’s lackeys have done extensive research on Brande, looking for something he can use, but they’ve come up empty. It’s almost as if Brande didn’t exist until ten years ago. McCauley is worried Brande might be a threat and his minions suggest using the Legion to strike at Brande, since he’s responsible for its formation. One of McCauley’s people (Charon) offers to take care of Brande himself. At Legion headquarters, Dream Girl has a premonition of Brande being in danger of
disappearing and the Legion being responsible. She can’t find Element Lad or Brainiac 5, so she decides to put a team together to help Brande. We see Brainiac 5 is indisposed because he’s in his lab trying to figure out how Invisible Kid gained teleportation powers from Lyle Norg’s invisibility serum. Sensor Girl warns Brainy not to turn Invisible Kid into another project and mentions a key component of the serum, which surprises Brainy since she shouldn’t have that kind of knowledge. (This is the first clue in the big mystery over who Sensor Girl really is; I won’t spoil it, although most of you probably know already.) On Brande’s asteroid, Dream Girl and her team (Star Boy, Lightning Lass, Sun Boy, Quislet, and Timber Wolf) tell Brande about her vision, but he gets all salty 
and doesn’t want to be protected like some baby. He soon changes his mind when one of his servants turns out to be Charon in disguise. Charon uses a power siphon to drain Sun Boy and Lightning Lass’s powers, hoping to use them to kill Brande. The others fight him off, but a bunch of missiles come flying in aimed at Brande’s house. At Science Police headquarters, Element Lad, Tellus, Chameleon Boy, and Shvaughn Erin are checking out the police officers they captured last issue (the ones who attacked the theme park). Turns out Tellus’s telepathy was right: they have no memory of attacking the park and their
minds are basically blank. The only thing they have in common is that they were all assigned to Takron-Galtos (the prison planet), which makes Chameleon Boy wonder if someone there was controlling them. On Brande’s asteroid, the Legionnaires take out the missiles and threaten to waste Charon if he doesn’t talk. He knows their code against killing, but Brande has no such scruples and the Legionnaires pretend not to care what he does to Charon. At Legion HQ, Brainy’s experiment shows that Invisible Kid can’t control his teleportation at will, he can only use it in times of stress. Brainy wonders if they should try to get rid of the power, since Invisible Kid can’t control it properly. Dream Girl’s team 
attacks McCauley’s estate and fights their way through his guards, dumping Charon’s unconscious body at McCauley’s feet. They ask why he attacked Brande and McCauley claims it was about money; they don’t believe him, but there’s not much they can do since Brande won’t press charges. On the way back, the Legionnaires get a message from Brande saying he’s taking off to start over on a new world, with a new face and name. So, in a way, Dream Girl’s vision came true: Brande did disappear and the Legion was involved.
New Teen Titans #15 – “This Road to War” – Marv Wolfman/Eduardo Barreto/Romeo Tanghal
This one starts on Tamaran where Blackfire is fomenting rebellion against her father (Myand’r), tapping into the Tamaranians respect for strong warriors and making her father out to be weak. Meanwhile, Starfire (Blackfire’s sister) is on a Tamaranian ship headed for home, with her boyfriend (Nightwing) and teammate (Jericho) along for the ride. Nightwing and Starfire are arguing about her warlike ways and she asks him to accept her the way she is, violent tendencies and all. Nightwing isn’t sure he can do that. Meanwhile, Jericho overhears the ship’s captain (Karras) talking to his lieutenant (Taryia, who he’s in love with) about
Starfire and how something bad is going to happen to her. When they land on Tamaran, Starfire is overjoyed to see her parents again. Nightwing (who has been suspicious of Karras all along) confronts the captain, but he won’t tell Nightwing anything. Back on Earth, Steve Dayton is still wearing the Mento helmet and it’s still making him crazy; he attacks one of his own labs, telling a scientist he’d better do exactly what he’s told or Mento will kill him. In Louisiana, Arella hears about Raven being found by some bayou dwellers and tied to a stake so they could exploit her healing powers. She finds Raven (who seems to have amnesia), but they’re attacked by Mother Mayhem and the Church of Blood, 
who capture both of them. On Tamaran, Starfire gets a call from her brother (Ryand’r) who’s been hanging out with the Omega Men. She’d thought he was dead and he warns her that something weird is going on. Blackfire is eavesdropping on the transmission and now knows Ryand’r and the Omega Men are alive. She’s not too worried though, since she has Auron on her side and he seems eager to waste his fellow Omega Men. The next day, Starfire and her friends go on a hunt (to capture a telepathic beast called a dragget). Nightwing almost gets himself killed trying to show off, but Starfire rescues him. In their camp, Starfire tells her father her visit is just temporary and she plans to go back to Earth. But Myand’r tells her she can’t; he reminds her how he
sold her into slavery to keep the Citadel forces from ravaging Tamaran, and points out that it worked. But now there are rebel factions on Tamaran who want to go back to the warlike ways. In order to keep Tamaran from being torn apart by civil war, Myand’r has promised Starfire will marry the Prince of Kalapatt. Starfire refuses (and Nightwing is incensed), but Myand’r tells her any blood shed in a civil war will be on her head if she refuses. She gets another shock when Captain Karras reveals himself to be her intended, the Prince of Kalapatt.